BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER 8 is part of an evolving audio artwork that began life as Martyn Rainford's contribution to Alan Dunn's compilation CD 'A History of Background.'
Since 2012 BasementArtsProject has been working with Dunn and Rainford to re-make and re-stage this work through ever-changing formats, including a remix by Scanner
and a live presentation by Reg [Jula] at SCOPE PLUS.

This is PART EIGHT, featuring Laure Ferraris' vocals over a ten-minute excerpt from
Reg [Jula]'s PART SEVEN mix.

PART EIGHT has been pressed onto 12" dublates and only
two copies of these single-sided vinyls exist. Laure has one and the second one will be passed on to someone to create PART NINE of the project.

PART ONE March 2011Rainford produces the track In
favour of CHANCE _ (for which, read experimental) for Dunn's A
history of background. The track is "in part a reaction to way graphic design is understood by those who feel its only
contribution is to conveying someone else's message and not the message itself,
but also a response to technology and Duchampian ideas of chance."

PART THREE October 2012The No 4 variation track is further remixed and produced as a single 12" dubplate
for the exhibition
Inhospitable in Liverpool,
curated by
BasementArtsProject. The remix introduces a child's voice to the mix.

PART FOUR December 2012The
Inhospitable exhibition moves to Leeds. Dubplate, turntable and sleeve, on floor.

PART SIX and PART SEVEN March 2017We set up a three-speaker playback of PART TWO as part of the Electronic
Music and Art Festival Scope Plus and collaborate with Jack Wolff
and the visiting public to create a new live remixed iteration.
Event promoted by set of hand-sprayed digital prints, designed by Martyn Rainford. The part 6 installation
is here and the new remix is here.